brunette
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
ChatGPT, perhaps drawing on data showing that there are far more dark-haired people in the world than blondes, decided to make her a brunette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
Inside the car, detectives found a brunette wig and a rubber mask resembling a white male that the law enforcement source said looked realistic enough to be “movie quality.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Maya stood out in every single photo, the one brunette in a family of redheads, her smile getting less and less full over the years.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
![]()
Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 9, 2019
His penchant for brunettes - Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Yvonne De Carlo, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue and Jean Peters, among others - could have stymied a witness at a police lineup.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2018
On a half-dozen asymmetrically stacked television monitors downstairs, cartoon brunettes in ankle boots were performing what looked like tai chi in front of a waterfall, dolphins plunging around them.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012
"And she knew I preferred brunettes," Auguste adds.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
![]()